- Come 2027, the 114th edition of the Tour de France and the 6th edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will get the show on the road with a British trilogy.
- The Grande Boucle, which has already touched English soil four times since 1974, is set to broaden its horizons with an adventure that will get under way in Scotland. The field will spring into action in Edinburgh and visit Wales before returning to England, for a total of three nations in one same Grand Départ.
- It will be the second start of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift outside French borders —following the Grand Départ in the Netherlands in 2024— and its first on the other side of the Channel.
The Tour de France made landfall in England for the first time in 1974. It was a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance consisting of a single stage held on a circuit in Plymouth. Twenty years later, the riders of the 1994 Tour marked the recent opening of the Channel Tunnel with two stages, one ending in Brighton and the other in Portsmouth. Britain has hosted two memorable Grands Départs of the Tour de France in the 21st century, first in London in 2007 and then in Yorkshire in 2014. In summer 2027, the race will take this relationship to a whole new level, exploring three of the four Home Nations. The peloton of the Tour will make its first foray into Scotland, converging on Edinburgh for the beginning of an adventure that will also take it to Wales and England.
The Grand Départ in Britain will be the first overseas trip of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, which has yet to venture outside mainland Europe. It also sets the scene for another historic milestone, as this will be the first time that both events share a start —albeit on different dates— in a country other than France.
THE BRITISH AND THE YELLOW JERSEY
3 WINNERS OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE
6 YELLOW JERSEY WEARERS
16 stage winners, 78 trophies
- Brian Robinson (2 wins in 1958, 1959)
- Michael Wright (3 wins from 1965 to 1973)
- Barry Hoban (8 wins from 1967 to 1975)
- Robert Millar (3 wins from 1983 to 1989)
- Sean Yates (1 win in 1988)
- Chris Boardman (3 wins from 1994 to 1998)
- Max Sciandri (1 win in 1995)
- David Millar (4 wins from 2000 to 2012)
- Mark Cavendish (35 wins from 2008 to 2024)
- Chris Froome (7 wins from 2012 to 2016)
- Bradley Wiggins (2 wins in 2012)
- Stephen Cummings (2 wins in 2015 and 2016)
- Geraint Thomas (3 wins in 2017 and 2018)
- Simon Yates (2 wins in 2019)
- Tom Pidcock (1 win in 2022)
- Adam Yates (1 win in 2023)
THE EIGHT STAGES OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE RACED IN ENGLAND
- 1974
> Stage 2, Plymouth > Plymouth, 163 km: victory for Henk Poppe (Hol)
- 1994
> Stage 4, Dover > Brighton, 204 km: Francisco Cabello (Esp)
> Stage 5, Portsmouth > Portsmouth, 187 km: Nicola Minali (Ita)
- 2007
> Prologue, London > London, 7.9 km: Fabian Cancellara (Sui)
> Stage 1, London > Canterbury, 203 km: Robbie McEwen (Aus)
- 2014
> Stage 1, Leeds > Harrogate, 190 km: Marcel Kittel (All)
> Stage 2, York > Sheffield, 201 km : Vincenzo Nibali (Ita)
> Stage 3, Cambridge > London, 155 km : Marcel Kittel (All)
